Stories from Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Wauneta-Palisade makes return trip to Lincoln as wild card Cambridge's boys pushed past Wauneta-Palisade 72-65 in overtime for the Nebraska Class D1-6 district championship Tuesday at the McCook High School gymnasium. The Trojans managed to stay one step ahead of the Broncos until the fourth quarter when the two teams tied it up 57-57, pushing the game into overtime...

The girls state basketball games begin Thursday in Lincoln. Wauneta-Palisade and Cambridge will be sending their girls and boys teams to the "Big Dance." The Cambridge girls (16-7) will play Wauneta-Palisade (20-3) in a Class D-1 first-round game at 9 p.m. Thursday at Lincoln Southeast High School...

"Study your Nebraska history. Be proud of your Nebraska heritage ... your Nebraska roots." That was the message that Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale, aka "Cactus Jack," gave to fourth graders gathered in McCook Monday for an official "Nebraska Statehood Day" birthday party...

Those of use who grew up glued to the fuzzy, flickering black-and-white images of broadcast television's heyday lost some old friends this week. One started as a sidekick and went on to be a leading man; one made a career out of being a sidekick, another was familiar to everyone but was perhaps best loved for his role in a Christmas classic, and the last made sports exciting for even the most unathletic of us...

We live in amazing times. In 100 years we've gone from horse and buggy to the moon and beyond. Instead of the telegraph for emergency messages, we rely on the telephone. Apparently, life is in a constant state of emergency, be-cause we now carry our telephones with us everywhere, and use them not only to communicate in words, but also in pictures. And most recently, telephones have replaced the transistor radio. Remember those?...